colon in the URL escaped as %3A

[jze]

Some website (like Facebook) escape a colon in a URL as %3A. That results in a "file not found" error in my CMSimple installation. However, there is a quite easy fix for that. In cmsimple/cms.php line 130 (CMSimple_XH 1.2 2010-07-05) add one line like this:

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$su = substr($su, 0, $cf['uri']['length']);
$su = preg_replace('/%3a/i',':',$su); # sometimes the colon in the URL is escaped as %3A

if ($stylesheet != '') {

If there is no better solution for this maybe this line can be added to the official CMSimple_XH source.

[Potjiekos]

Hello is anyone there.

I'm using CMSimple version 3.2 om my server.

I'd like to add the facebook "LIKE" plug in on my website, but have found that the url's don't agree with the CMSimple url's. I have tried following the editing of the code but have been unsuccessful.

Does anyone have input on this? Any advice would be welcome.

[Gert]

You can set the uri_seperator from ":" to "/" in the settings, so you will have nice URL's, I have done it on cmsimple-xh.de, you can see it here:

http://www.cmsimple-xh.de/?Download-Ber ... /Templates

But on existing websites then all internal links are not working anymore, you have to change them. And all search engine results are gone. And all "deep links" from other websites are not working anymore.

So that solution is good only for new installations.

I wanted to have it as standard for CMSimple_XH sometimes ago, but I was in minority because of compatibility to the classic CMSimple.

[Potjiekos]

Thanx for the help Gert.

I've fixed it there. I think its much better to have simple URL's otherwise this is not CMSimple anymore. Simplicity is better.

facebook like button still gives an error.

[Gert]

Have you also changed the facebook-link? (":" to "/")

[Potjiekos]

Have you also changed the facebook-link? (":" to "/")

Yheah but facebook still makes it a foulty link --- facebook code looks like this

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<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fpotjie-boula.zxq.net%2Fcmsxh%2F%3FHow_to_create_pages%2FAn_H2_heading%2FAn_H3_heading&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=80" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Looks like facebooks http://developers.facebook.com/docs/ref ... ugins/like renders the wrong url.

I will try to edit the link in fb's code.

[Gert]

Hm, it's the same shit:

%3A for ":"
%2F for "/"
%3F for "?"

http://www.torsten-horn.de/techdocs/ascii.htm

[Potjiekos]

If you put this http%3A%2F%2Fpotjie-boula.zxq.net%2Fcmsxh%2F%3FHow_to_create_pages%2FAn_H2_heading%2FAn_H3_heading crap into your location bar.

Result = Server Not Found

I put the real http://potjie-boula.zxq.net/cmsxh/?How_ ... H3_heading url then i get to the page.

[Potjiekos]

Mabe we should work on a facebook plugin of our own even if we have to work with the facebook developers.

[Gert]

":" or "/" as uri_separator - it's the same problem, so we should let the ":".

I have tried the solution from jze (first post), it works for me (with ":" as uri_seperator).